I love looking at recently released WordPress themes and seeing what new features and designs that they have. I always recommend choosing a theme thats been released or updated recently so the functionality is up-to-date and the designs and modern and appealing. Half the year has passed so I thought I would back at some of my personal favorite WordPress Themes that have all been created so far in 2012. Check them out and then leave us a comment telling us what you think ...

Soundboard

Soundboard is a powerful music WordPress theme with special features for bands and solo artists. With Soundboard you can display your tour dates, discography, videos and images – it has pretty much everything you need for a band website.

Rustik

Rustik is a beautiful minimalist WordPress+WooCommerce theme that makes your products the center of attention. You can create your own logo on the fly in the theme options with a selection of 400+ fonts, and any font size, font style and font color.The theme comes with two readymade color schemes and you can adjust many color options from the theme admin to give it your own style.

Adapt

Adapt is responsive theme designed to show off your articles and showcase your work in style. The theme has a powerful full-width featured homepage slider and an adaptable 3-column masonry layout with some cool hover animations. Adapt also takes advantage of AJAX which allows the user to load more corresponding posts on the fly without reloading the page or hindering SEO .

Daisho

Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. Powerful Typography Plugin included. The definitive portfolio solution for creative professionals available now.

Natural

The Natural Theme was modeled after the design of our original Organic Themes site. The latest version of the theme has taken on a life of its own — with highly customizable options and a fresh design. The Natural Theme is an excellent solution for businesses working in or around the environment and promoting green lifestyles. In addition, the theme makes a great blog, portfolio or even storefront.

Angular

Angular is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with support for the bbPress Forum plugin, just in case you need it

Beta

Beta is a revolutionary WordPress theme designed to look great, function beautifully and promote you and your business well beyond the webpage.

Full Details | Price: $39

WowWay

WowWay is an incredibly unique and highly interactive WordPress theme for creative portfolios. Based on a responsive grid, packed up with lots of cool features and built on a powerful admin panel, this can become the perfect theme for you!

Block

The Block Theme was designed using a stylish minimal approach, while offering a unique layout that fits like a glove. The theme provides many familiar features of Organic Themes, with a couple new ones including an optional Twitter Feed integration, a Featured Content Slider with thumbnails and a Portfolio Page template.

Full Details | Price: $69

Maxx

Maxx WP is a Modern Clean & Creative theme suitable for any corporate business or portfolio,It’s created by using the latest techniques : HTML5 and CSS3 . With a extremely responsive design That means it will fit any device (Desktop, tablet, smartphone…), completely optimized for your touchable device. Maxx has everything you’ll want for your business website.

Gleam

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique experience that is sure to grab your visitor's attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.

Good Space

Good Space is a Wordpress theme especially for creative agency. It’s very clean, minimal with modern design. This theme is also has a responsive ability. Moreover, it comes with tons of features. Including our page items that can be managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

Envisioned

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

Helm

Lucid Press

Lucidpress is a sleek, solid and clean WP theme. Its smart and properly arranged environment allows you to exhibit your works more efficiently and fluently while having full control. Its very powerful admin panel along with a minimalistic yet bold design is capable of unlimited possibilities to cater creative agencies and individual artists.

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Gonzo

Whether you want to give your dusty old blog a new coat of paint or are drowning in a sea of posts and categories, Gonzo is here to your rescue.
Simplify and present your content in a way that is accessible, logical and beautiful.

Structure

The Structure Theme is a minimally designed theme with a beautiful layout featuring 2 color variations — a white version and a black version. We offer a Premium version and a Free version of the Structure Theme. The Premium version has many enhanced features not included in the Free version.

Folio Two

Folio Two Wordpress theme is an advanced portfolio focused to creative freelancers and agencies, a practical and usable wordpress theme designed with HTML5 + CSS3 and using jQuery to enhance an awesome user experience.

Capiton

Elementi

Elementi is a super-awesome Premium Wordpress Theme with oodles of features. Elementi comes packed with an easy-to-use un-branded Options Panel and great documentation. Elementi is suitable for any type of site. Portfolio, photographer showcase, inspiration gallery, freebie site, this theme can do it!

Cleanr

Cleanr is a responsive, corporate, beautiful WordPress theme and it just fits perfectly for your upcoming corporate project. Just the right amount of features are included, no extra jib-jabbing, yadda-yadda.

William

William is a grid-based, responsive, minimalistic, ajax powered portfolio theme for creatives. The theme comes with a well thought out responsive layout, unlimited sidebar management, 5 post formats, simple theme options and much more.

Reach

Halftone

Responsive WordPress Theme perfect for Creative portfolio showcase and personal blog/portfolio style websites. Feature blog and work posts on the front page, set a google map and contact form on the contac page.

Era WP

Offer yourself, or your clients, a beautifully designed, aesthetically clean and to-the-point theme. A theme that cares about visuals and performance, design and speed, typography and usability. A theme that combines the excellence of design quality, with the functionality of powerful code.

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Hi! I'm Nathan B Weller: writer, book lover, and digital publisher. I use WordPress to launch blogs, products, businesses and portfolios for myself and my clients. If you'd like to see what I'm up to on a regular basis stop by my website at www.nathanbweller.com.

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